Knowledge vs Power vs Leverage

from Google AI:

Yes, knowledge is power, but only when you use it. Knowing facts gives you tools, but taking action makes things happen. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Why Knowledge is Power

Clear choices: You make smart choices when you know the facts.
Problem solving: You fix hard problems with good data and skills.
Protection: You stay safe when you understand risks. [1, 2, 3]

Why Knowledge Needs Action

Potential only: Knowing a lot does nothing if you do nothing.
Execution wins: Doing the work creates real change.
Practical skill: Practice matters more than theory.

Acta non Verba! 

from Google AI:

Power and leverage are closely related, but they are not the same thing. Power is the direct capacity, strength, or authority to act and enforce an outcome. Leverage is a strategic multiplier—the advantage or tool used to amplify that power so a small input creates a disproportionately large result. [1, 2, 3]

Core Differences

Power is your raw capability or position. It is the muscle, money, or authority you currently possess.
Leverage is how you apply a mechanical or strategic advantage to make that power go further. It determines how much influence you actually have in a given moment. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

How They Interact

Power without leverage is like having a heavy weight; you can push it directly with brute force, requiring a 1:1 expenditure of energy for every bit of movement. [1, 2, 3]
Leverage acts as the fulcrum and long pole. It allows someone with modest power or resources to move a much larger object or compel an opponent in a negotiation. [1, 2, 3]
In a negotiation or conflict, leverage is the specific vulnerability or alternative that forces the other party to move, serving as the functional application of your available power. [1]

Multiply your Verba with the Acta's of Others 

"What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!" [1]

- Nietzsche, "Twilight of the Idols" (1889)

Tier 0 Navigation Systems

Those Magnetic maps mentioned (~18:30)?  Where'd they come from?  In 1985 I wrote a proposal to build (2) T-AGS vessels for Military Sealift Command (MSC)...

from Google AI:

The "Tanner" and "Maury" names refer to two generations of paired U.S. Navy oceanographic and hydrographic survey sister ships, named after pioneering oceanographers Zera Luther Tanner and Matthew Fontaine Maury.

1. First Generation: World War II Conversions (1946–1969) 

Originally built as Artemis-class attack cargo ships during World War II, these vessels were converted into dedicated hydrographic survey units in 1946:

• USS Tanner (AGS-15): Originally commissioned as the USS Pamina (AKA-34).
• USS Maury (AGS-16): Originally commissioned as the USS Renate (AKA-36).

Both ships spent over two decades performing critical, global mapping and charting operations—including extensive data gathering in the Persian Gulf and the Arctic—before being decommissioned together in 1969.

2. Second Generation: Purpose-Built Survey Vessels (1989–1994)

In the late 1980s, the Navy built a new pair of advanced, fast oceanographic research sister ships at the Bethlehem Steel Sparrows Point shipyard in Maryland:

• USNS Maury (T-AGS-39): Entered service in 1989. It was the largest and fastest deep-ocean mapping vessel of its time.
• USNS Tanner (T-AGS-40): Entered service in 1990.

Post-Military Second Lives

After brief naval careers cut short by the end of the Cold War and mechanical problems, both second-generation vessels were transferred to state maritime academies in 1996 for use as training platforms:

• USNS Maury (T-AGS-39) became the TS Golden Bear, serving as the primary training vessel for the California Maritime Academy.
• USNS Tanner (T-AGS-40) became the TS State of Maine, serving the Maine Maritime Academy.

(Note: The Navy later commissioned another standalone Pathfinder-class survey ship named USNS Maury (T-AGS-66) in 2016. Due to Matthew Fontaine Maury's historical ties to the Confederacy, that vessel was officially renamed the USNS Marie Tharp in 2023).

from Google AI:

The T-AGS oceanographic survey ships USNS Maury (T-AGS 39) and USNS Tanner (T-AGS 40) collected geomagnetic data used to create high-accuracy magnetic maps. 

Operating as deep-ocean survey platforms, both vessels were outfitted with highly complex, integrated survey systems. Their primary mission was to gather critical geophysical parameters—including bathymetric, gravity, and geomagnetics data—specifically designed to produce precise seafloor charts.

Key Details of Their Mission:

Strategic Purpose: The precise magnetic and gravity charts produced from their data directly supported the Trident Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarine Program to assist with covert underwater navigation. 

Acoustic Engineering: To ensure that the sensitive instruments recording these magnetic and bathymetric readings were not compromised by noise, the ships' engines were mounted on specialized rubber-cushioned rafts to isolate vibrations from the hull. 

Sister Ships: This specific deep-ocean charting system was also operational on two other survey vessels of that era: the USNS H.H. Hess (T-AGS 38) and the USNS Wyman (T-AGS 34). 

(Note: If you are looking into the newer Pathfinder-class survey ship formerly named USNS Maury (T-AGS 66), it was officially renamed the USNS Marie Tharp in March 2023. Tharp was the pioneering oceanographic cartographer who created the very first scientific maps of the Atlantic Ocean floor.) 

How the Oppressed became the Oppressors

A Culture of Remembering "What They have done to Us"

to Achieve a State of Persistent Paranoia and Hostility

Cultivating a Hatred Essential to One's Social & Political Identity Consisting of Remembrance of Intergeneration Trauma

Embracement of that Trauma Cult-ure

Gaining Street Cred for an Intersectional Social Ranking

a Rank bent on obtaining both Reparations and Revenge

A Blood Feud: Never Forget, Never Forgive!